He
says data from the Congressional Budget Office and the Federal Procurement Data
System indicate the Small Business Administration falsified the federal
government's compliance with the 23 percent small business contracting goal for
fiscal year 2016.

Mr.
Chapman points to a May 18 press release in which the SBA claimed small
businesses had received $99.96 billion in federal contracts and 24.34 percent
of all federal contracts awarded in fiscal year 2016.

The
Small Business Act mandates small businesses receive a minimum of 23 percent of
all federal contracts.

Here’s
where Mr. Chapman’s arithmetic differs from the SBA’s: The Congressional Budget
Office reports the total federal acquisition budget for 2016 was $1.2 trillion.

He
says 23 percent of the $1.2 trillion the federal government actually awarded in
contracts for fiscal year 2016 would be approximately $276 billion.

To
reach its number, the SBA had to exclude $790 billion in federal contracts from
their calculations, Mr. Chapman says.

Mr. Chapman says the only way to
get the federal government to listen seems to be to clonk it over the head with
federal lawsuits – which he has done numerous times.

“I’ve got a trial against the
Pentagon [on] December 11 of this year,” he says of his latest lawsuit. He
contends that much of the tax dollars supposedly going to small business has
actually been funneled into large corporations and even foreign firms,
including a Russian arms seller.